Temperature Record of the Week
This issue's Temperature Record of the week is from Mandan, North Dakota. Visit our U.S. Climate Data section to plot and view these data for yourself.

Current EditorialOut With The New, In With The Old: Dr. Craig Idso reminisces about his 4-year tenure as Center President and Editor of CO2 Science Magazine, which comes to a close on 3 October 2001. So who will replace him? Read on!

Subject Index SummariesLittle Ice Age – South America: Climate alarmists pushing for restrictions on anthropogenic CO2 emissions want us to believe that the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period were minor phenomena restricted to lands surrounding the North Atlantic. If this were true, why do reports of these several-hundred-year-long climatic excursions continue to pour in from Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela? And why does the evidence suggest they were solar-induced?

Temperature x CO2 Interaction – Plant Growth Response (Other Species): Most of earth’s plants display increases in photosynthesis and biomass production when exposed to elevated levels of atmospheric CO2. But what happens when air temperature rises concurrently? In this summary, we survey the recent scientific literature to get a feel for the fate of agricultural crops under this oft-predicted scenario.

Current Journal ReviewsHurricanes in Alabama: The authors of this interesting study note that "no hurricane of category 4 or 5 intensity has made landfall in coastal Alabama during the past 120 years of documentary record." Think what it would mean to the climate alarmists if such a history-shattering hurricane were to hit tomorrow.

Long-Term Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment Reduces Dark Respiration in Scots Pine: After enriching the air’s CO2 content with an extra 400 ppm CO2 for two years, Scots pine seedlings rooted in the ground within open-top chambers responded by reducing their needle dark respiration rates by about 30%. Such significant reductions in respiratory carbon losses will undoubtedly lead to greater carbon sequestration in this economically important coniferous species.